BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS CRITIC Prohibition, jazz and decadence defined the Roaring Twenties. And no work of American literature encapsulates this decade more than F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” Now, Ballet Spartanburg closes its season with the much-anticipated original...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC There’s no place like Dorman. There’s no place like Dorman. There’s no place like Dorman. This mantra will likely be felt, if not spoken, all weekend as Spartanburg School District 6 and the Dorman Theatre...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Spartanburg Middle School, not generally known for its theatre program, got a much-needed boost from English teacher Teresa Barney this weekend in its first full theater production in its 11-year history as a charter school...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Just as Shakespeare so eloquently lays out in his Prologue the fate of the doomed teen lovers in “Romeo and Juliet,” we are warned up front that things will end badly in “Capture Now,” the...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC A staple of American high school literature class, Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” now comes to vivid light and shadow in the Mill Town Players’ new striking and ever-so-timely stage adaptation of this cherished...
You Won’t Regret It! BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The much-anticipated regional premiere at Centre Stage, “MAMMA MIA!” is ecstatic escapism at its best and backed by a solid gold soundtrack of some two dozen smash electro-pop ditties from the...
